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It was “one hell of a battle”, the paratroop commander said. Mortars crashed
against the rocks that were protecting Lieutenant-Colonel Hew Pike as he
barked orders to his men on Mount Longdon. “For many it was probably the
worst night of our lives,” recalled the officer, now a Major-General. “There
were some particularly bad moments where one thought, ‘We are throwing
everything at these people and they are still stubbornly resisting. How long
is this going to take?’ ”

The battle for Mount Longdon, fought between 3rd Battalion, The Parachute
Regiment and a dug-in unit of Argentine troops on the night